As a fellow New Orleanian I am proud to confirm this. We live in such a miniscule liberal island amongst a massive sea of red that it is sometimes easy to forget the fact that our fellow neighbors have intelligent minds of their own. There’s definitely a divide, even within my family, of the old whites and the young…

I just hope it spreads to kids everywhere and not just clever 17 years olds in San Francisco. I’m glad she is challenging this crap but I worry more about kids like my brother’s kids. It’s not directly because of my brother or his wife. It’s her mother. She’s a loud and overbearing idiot. Not long after the election…

You need some tact, and to be less of an asshole. Maybe some people skills thrown in.

You need a brain, not a web portal where you can shit post.

You need to be less of a raging asshole, but while Nathan will surely be able to confront and deal with his demons, of that I have no doubt, you will still be a relentless, empathy lacking asshole who thinks snark is a suitable response to someone giving insight to their emotional state and the wounds they suffer.

I’ve been saying this for years and it’s never been more obviously true. This country will not move forward and become “great again” until the baby boomers die. Sorry, mom and dad, but you and your generation have royally fucked the earth, the housing market, education, working wages, and democracy. I’m sure I’ve left…

counterpoint: What’s your problem, bud? Kind of a dick move.

Sadly, a former friend of mine has a son she’s raising to be a complete Bible-thumping right-wing asshole...kid’s in high school, thinks he’s gonna be a gung-ho super soldier, but he’s a lardass momma’s boy who’s gonna wash out of basic and end up living with mommy until she dies.

In other words, a future white…

I live in New Orleans but work outside in a VERY conservative area, and I come into contact with local teenagers pretty frequently. They are fairly anti-Trump. Now, they are all like, white preppy dudes with rich parents so we’ll see whether this is rebellion against daddy or what, but still. It helps. When I was in…

Her response is perfect.

Please try to understand the Girls Make Games workshop would not be geared toward you because virtually ALL other workshops/classes are majority male. This ONE workshop was created to create a welcoming environment for females to see and interact with other females in the gaming world.

You’re not being handicapped. No-ones taking a workshop away from you. There’s plenty of these that already exist. This is an extra one just for girls. That’s it.

The absolutely worst thing about this, that isn’t true with all the other similar BS like All Lives Matter, is that it’s actually within our lifetimes that women got straight-up kicked out of the field.

Spoken like a white male.

Oh for heavens... There ARE workshops and gamejams for everyone, just like Jason said. THIS one isn’t. It’s specifically for women and girls, because they’re usually not welcomed at these jams or targeted by workshops.

You’ve been unable to find any coding classes anywhere? There’s not a single coed coding class in existence anywhere anymore?

Well-said. As a freshman, I started in an open-ended engineering course designed to encourage exploration in all realms of engineering. In my assigned team, we were more focused on our final project in machining a product- something I’d never done before, never been in a machine shop, never been handed a tool other…

What are you complaining about here? You can’t get into this one particular workshop so you’ve been handicapped? There are dozens of workshops throughout the year are available to you, but this one is keeping you from reaching your true potential? The one workshop that was created to provide an encouraging and…

The most simple way to put it is boys already have “Boys Make Games.” There are plenty of organizations out there to teach coding to everyone. The issues comes from the fact that these are typically geared towards boys and can be quite hostile to girls. In my programming classes we never had more than 3 women. We…

Yep, and hopefully programs like Girls Make Games can help solve that problem in the long run!

You do a very good job of laying out the basics of the situation. For perspective on the matter, the studio I work for is currently accepting applications for programmers. Of the applications I have dealt with none have been women.
The industry is not even reaching the moment at which we could choose our hires based…